A nurse was bombarded with messages from her ambulance man ex-partner during a campaign of harassment.

Rita Evans split up with Bruce Urquhart after nearly four years, but he refused to accept the break-up.

He began bombarding her with messages at all hours, including sending links to songs to her in the middle of the night.

Urquhart, 56, ignored her requests to stop and the text and Whatsapp messages took on a more “insulting and upsetting” tone.

He told her she was the “laughing stock” Glan Clwyd hospital, where she worked. Mrs Evans said they had split up “numerous times” during the relationship.

At Llandudno magistrates court, Urquhart’s barrister William Hingston said the ambulance technician had “clearly employed a lack of judgement” after an acrimonious split, and suggested Mrs Evans had exaggerated the impact of his approaches - which she denied.

Mr Hingston added: “He was clearly hurting after the relationship, he doesn’t deny that. There were issues that needed to be sorted out.

“This is a professional man of good character.”

Urquhart, of Nant y Glyn Road, Colwyn Bay, told his trial that “when a relationship breaks up I don’t think you can just flick a light off”.

He added: “I am a human being, I have got feelings.”

But prosecutor Julia Galston said the messages caused “a considerable amount of distress.”

“You say ‘no more Mr Nice Guy!’,” she said, to which Urquhart replied: “Because I have been too nice.”